Syria: A car laden with munitions and explosives seized in southern area

Date of publication: 09 03 2016, 15:37

Authorities confiscated in cooperation with the popular defense groups a car loaded with rocket, mortar and artillery shells, mines and half a ton of TNT in the southern region.

An official source at Sweida Governorate told SANA reporter on Wednesday that the car was moving on the road linking Samad village in Daraa with Bekka in southern Sweida and heading east towards al-Badiya (desert) where terrorist organizations are operating.

On Saturday, authorities, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, confiscated a car loaded with large amounts of mines, mortars and ammunition in the southwestern countryside of Sweida while it was coming from Daraa towards Eastern Badiya.